Mite (unit)

Mite was an English gold and silver weight.

• 20 mites = 1 grän / grain
• 1 mite = 24 doites with 24 perits each of 24 blanks
• 9600 mites = 1 ounce
• 1 pound = 12 ounces = 240 pennyweight = 5760 grains = 115,200 mites

literature

• Eduard Beer: The latest foreign dictionary for the Germanization and explanation of all non-German words, idioms, artistic expressions and abbreviations that occur in language and writing: with constant indication of their emphasis, pronunciation and origin, as well as the gender of the nouns. Volume 2, Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Weimar 1838, p. 86.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Jürgen Elert Kruse: General and especially Hamburg Contorist. Publisher of the author, Hamburg 1753, p. 112.